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Mothers of Liberty: Women who built British Liberalism

By Mark Pack | Tue 23rd October 2012 - 10:50 am

For an organisation that looks to the past and to party politics, it is almost inevitable that the Liberal Democrat History Group’s publications are rather dominated with accounts of men. Even now, well into the 21st century, we only just have the first female Liberal Democrat ministers, whilst female Liberal Democrat Cabinet members or party leaders are still something for the future.

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Posted in Books | Also tagged Catherine Gladstone, featured, history, Lady Palmerston, Lady Waldegrave, lynne featherstone, Margaret Lloyd George, margaret wintringham, Mary Gladstone, nancy seear and patsy calton | 3 Comments

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